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Profiling a Pandemic. Who were the victims of the Spanish flu?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)At the end of May 1918, the Spanish government was one of the first to admit that a new disease had emerged in their country. The newswire from Reuters reported that King Alfonso XIII, the prime minister, and ... -
Program theory within policy-initiated evaluations: the Norwegian low-income family study
(Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work;Volume 15, Issue 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-26)Using as an example a project where the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Directorate developed a comprehensive model for the follow-up of low-income families, this article demonstrates the process of developing a program theory ... -
Promoting Students’ Mental Health: A Study of Inter-professional Team Collaboration Functioning in Norwegian Schools
(September 2019, Volume 11, Issue 3, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-22)Collaboration between different professions is thought to be important for mental health work in schools. However, highquality collaboration is often difficult to achieve in practice, and there is little research available ... -
Propping up interdisciplinarity: responsibility in university flagship research
(Journal of Responsible Innovation;Volume 8, 2021 - Issue 1, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03-25)Researchers’ communication activities are influenced by motivations and abilities, but also by specific topics and artefacts of research. This is seldom acknowledged in efforts to embed responsible research and innovation ... -
Protocol: Feasibility study and pilot randomised trial of a multilingual support intervention to improve Norwegian language skills for adult refugees
(International Journal of Educational Research;Volume 112, 2022, 101925, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This protocol is for a feasibility study and pilot trial of a multilingual support intervention. The intervention’s aim is to improve language training for refugees in Norway by introducing multilingual support assistants ... -
Psychosocial outcome and resilience after paediatric liver transplantation in young adults
(Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology;Volume 43, Issue 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-05)Background and objective: The long-term psychosocial outcome of young adults after paediatric liver transplantation (LT) was investigated with the focus on day-to-day living. We aimed to capture patients’ subjective ... -
Public involvement and narrative fallacies of nanotechnologies
(NanoEthics;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-08-12)This paper analyzes a European research project called ‘Deepening Ethical Engagement and Participation in Emerging Nanotechnologies’ with the abbreviation DEEPEN. The DEEPEN’s findings and conclusions on the narratives, ... -
Questioning researchers’ evaluation of communication experiences: A combined interview- and media-based study of communicating socially contestable research
(Observatorio (OBS*);Vol 15, No 4 (December 2021), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This case study examines researchers’ experiences with – and several media’s practices of – communicating a research project that is scientifically complex, potentially highly impactful and socially contestable: the NTNU ... -
Race and 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States: A review of the literature
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health;Volume 16, Issue 14, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-12)During epidemics, the poorest part of the population usually suffers the most. Alfred Crosby noted that the norm changed during the 1918 influenza pandemic in the US: The black population (which were expected to have higher ... -
Rask psykisk helsehjelp: Evaluering av de første 12 pilotene i Norge
(Research report, 2016)2000 voksne med angstlidelser og lettere til moderate nivåer av depresjon fikk rask psykisk helsehjelp. Folkehelseinstituttets evaluering viser at 6 av 10 var friske etter behandlingen. Folkehelseinstituttet har evaluert ... -
Re-inkludering i arbeid av langtidsledige seniorer med høy kompetanse – erfaringer fra et pilotprosjekt i Bærum kommune
(AFI FoU-resultat;2020:03, Research report, 2020-06)For å bistå eldre langtidsledige med høy utdanning og høye kvalifikasjoner inngikk Nav Bærum avtale med Management Consulting-selskapet SEMCO International AS, som driver med bedriftsrådgivning, om å drifte et program for ... -
Re-thinking Solidarity at the Fringes of Consumer Culture: What Do Outlaw Bikers Have that "Brand Communities" Lack?
(The Journal of Culture;Vol. 8, No 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The article asks a question that may, at first sight, appear rather simple. Namely, what is the nature of solidarity among outlaw motorcycle clubs and how does it differ from so-called ‘brand communities’, a concept popular ... -
Reembedding Lean: The Japanese Cultural and Religious Context of a World Changing Management Concept
(International Journal of Sociology;Volume 45, Issue 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos rhetorically positioned the management concept “lean” for the business world in the early 1990s, claiming that lean would change the world for the better. In this article, I ... -
Regelen som bekrefter unntaket. En analyse av betydningsforhandlinger knyttet til midlertidig og fast arbeid
(Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift;Årgang 2, nr. 4-2018, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-11)The debate about temporary work in Norway, and the recent changes in the Working Environment Act in 2015, have mainly focused on whether temporary employment represents more insecurity or more flexibility and for whom in ... -
Regional Development and Climate Change Adaptation: A Study of the Role of Legitimacy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article; Journal article, 2016)This paper presents results from a study of Czech Local Action Groups (LAGs), focusing on gaining knowledge about their internally perceived legitimacy and their potential role in local ... -
The relation between social identity and test anxiety in university students
(Health Psychology Open;Volume: 5 issue: 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-05)Social identification has been shown to be a protective resource for mental health. In this study, the relationships between social identification and emotional, as well as cognitive symptoms of test anxiety are investigated. ... -
Remedy through paradox? Constructions of internal legitimacy in a publicly discredited organization
(Management Communication Quarterly;28(4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article examines how members of publicly discredited organizations discursively construct senses of internal legitimacy. Drawing on a case study of the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration—an organization that ... -
Remembering and reconfiguring industrial heritage: the case of the digester in Moss, Norway
(Landscape Research;Volume 46, 2021 - Issue 3: Special Section: Multidisciplinary Engagements with Port Arthur’s Landscapes of In/justice, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-28)In Moss, Norway, a former cellulose factory is currently being adapted for new uses. The onsite digester, a high-rise steel structure that was used to make cellulose before the factory closed in 2012, is a landmark on the ... -
A Report from the Field: Doing RRI from Scratch in an Assisted Living Technology Research and Development Project
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)The transdisciplinary Assisted Living project conducts research within (ICT), health science, social science and ethics. The overall aim of the project is to advance responsible research and innovation (RRI) in the field ... -
Reproduction and the welfare state: Notes on Norwegian biopolitics
(Nordic Journal of Social Research;Volume 11, Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Norway has long been considered to be a bastion of social democracy due to its strong, protective, decommodifying welfare state. However, with the recent rise of neoliberalism and right-wing populist politics across the ...